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  1. TruffleShuffle
    drop chris young, add zimmerman
  2. TruffleShuffle
    gee didn't see that nonsense coming a mile away.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    yeah i thought we discussed spelling the whole thing out. n. perez... too soon.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    gotta like seeing wainwright throw 114 pitches; he's averaging 106 pitches, or 9 more than last season. hopefully the workload catches up with him and he sucks in the playoffs/next season.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    i'm starting to think we won't win the world series this year.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    if that were true there would have been no game threads in june, july, august or september of 2006.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    leave him in, he's rollin.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    man, the cubs suck a little.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    lou is like pavlov's dog in 3-2 counts. doesn't matter how often it fails, who's on base, who's batting - automatic hit and run.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    jackson is 1-2 with a home run and walk flaherty 2-3 with a home run burke 2-3 (2 singles) antigua done with the following line: 5.2 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 7 K, 1 HR. just turned 19 a couple of months ago... should see him on a lot of prospect lists this offseason. welington castillo has 2 doubles in 3 ABs tonight. his first half was atrocious but since the ASB he's at .301/.339/.514/.854.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    3 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 4 K for antigua. liking him a lot - he's only 19 and is throwing well at low A. brett jackson is back in the lineup for peoria. flaherty has his 20th home run; burke singled in the first. samson and vitters hit back to back homers for daytona.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    With a much better minor league pedigree and a proven ability to hit for average, mitigating his chances for a Cedeno-esque flop. yeah, i don't see how anyone can look at the two guys and say they're very similar. cedeno struck out in nearly 19% of his PAs from ages 19-21. castro was at 15.3% last year and this year he's under 10% while playing as one of the youngest players in each league. he clearly has contact skills that ronny cedeno did not possess. i'd be more concerned that he turns into rey ordonez - a guy who makes a lot of contact but doesn't make solid enough contact to hit for good average - than ronny cedeno.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    he's too loyal to larussa. that being said, the cubs should offer him $10M a year in the offseason and see what happens.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    holliday, brendan ryan, ryan ludwick with runners in scoring position, joel pineiro, chris carpenter's health/performance, trever miller. but yeah they're better than people were giving them credit for.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    no idea what is going on in tennessee, game stopped updating with 1 out in the bottom of the 5th. the smokies were up 12-5 though. peoria leads 2-0 going to the top of the 9th with huseby in the game. very good pitchers' duel; the opposing pitcher went 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 8 K while bibens-dirkx went 7 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K. don't see duels like that very often in the low minors. both guys' ERAs are under 2 for the year.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    I could be wrong, but I think the added revenue of a jumbotron would come from the ads that run on the jumbotron more than attracting more fans. Yeah, I didn't consider that, but I guess it would bring in some extra dough that way. Might as well plaster the whole place with signage at that point, too. the cubs have the third-highest payroll in MLB; they really don't need to plaster wrigley with gaudy signs to compete with the rest of the league.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    yeah jeter has actually been a really good player for a long time. people end up hating him because of dolts like peter king and every person who points to his rings, leadership, flip to get jeremy giambi and header into the stands and decide that he's the greatest player they've ever seen.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    yeah it's awfully ironic that he has managed some of the most notorious steroid users in the game.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    not really, most of us have thrown in the towel and now are just rooting for the cardinals to lose in the playoffs.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    yeah i'm sure a guy who is a future hall of famer has been tipping his pitches and the cardinals were the ones who figured it out.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    1-2-3 third for cashner, including his first K of the night (the opposing pitcher). he's at 60 pitches; if he manages to be efficient he could actually go 5 innings and get the win. colvin has his third hit of the night, another single. not a lot happening for peoria tonight; they have 3 singles and a run but the opposing starter seems pretty tough - his ERA is around 1.00 in more than 60 innings this year. bibens-dirkx is throwing well and has a 1-0 lead through 4 IP.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    yeah his post-ASB numbers and stats from tennessee are very good. i still don't see him having enough discipline to profile as anything more than a fourth outfielder at the big league level, though. 2 singles but no runs against cashner in the 2nd.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    the opposing pitcher melted down in the 2nd inning (home run, walk to cashner, castro fly out, walk, walk) and the smokies continued to beat up on the relief pitcher (single, double, single, double with one of the runners thrown out at home). inning finally over but tennessee now leads 9-5. castro is 0-2, but colvin is 2-2 with a double, castillo has doubled, ty wright has walked and homered and thomas has homered.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    1 IP, 3 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 0 K. fannnnnnntastic. daytona doesn't play today.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    cool as long as we get a good sabermetric guy and not another jp ricciardi.
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